5 years in the Making Fiddleback Walnut

This is 6 slabs of mostly Curly and Fiddleback Black Walnut I milled out of an orchard, 5 years ago. This along with the other 20 slabs got brought home stickered and forgotten. Most of what I slab is 36” wide by at least 8’ or 10’ long and and these got forgotten and lost in the field. This summer I had to move my long term storage area and discovered them and remembered they were nice but not spectacular. I decided that I couldnt sell them as slabs so I planed them and will break them down into lumber, but was pleasantly surprised how much figure and color the wood has, thought I would share the pictures. Peace to All

Ken I see your from Fallbrook, cool place I managed Avacado Orchards in the Bonsall area for many years and lived in what used to be sleepy little Temecula. Wife still has lots of family in Diego County. most of the slabs have be split on a bandsaw in half 10” to 12” wide x 40”to 48” long and at least 10/4 to 12/4 thick each. . Not sure about pricing probably more interested in trading a piece or two trying to save up an buy a Woodmizer, or Hud-Son portable sawmill.

That is just about as bad as putting a bottle of whisky in front of an alcoholic. I checked your home site, andyou are too far away to drive to pick this wood up this afternoon. If you have more of this type of wood, itshould not take too long to get enough to buy the sawmill. Thank you for sharing. Oh yes, welcome to theLumberjocks site.

The thing I can not get over. Is that your “forgot” you had it… You must have one heck of a long term storage location! I do not deal lumber by any means so i have no idea what this type of location would look like. None the less, that is a good problem to have!